The Family Bass

I connected a Family BASIC keyboard to an NES via a bespoke adapter in order to play its unique triangle waveform live. Read more.

• Linus Akesson - Platform Hopping (Family Bass).mp3 (MP3, 5.7 MB)

Posted Friday 17-Jan-2025 07:59, 2 comments.

Withering Bytes

A short piece for human and machine. Read more.

• Linus Akesson - Withering Bytes.mp3 (MP3, 8.1 MB)

Posted Friday 6-Dec-2024 08:05, 0 comments.

Sommarfågel

A cover of the song Sommarfågel by Wintergatan, performed on a selection of my homemade 8-bit and 16-bit instruments. Read more.

Posted Friday 25-Oct-2024 08:51, 1 comment.

Interviewed at spillhistorie.no

I was featured in an article at the Norwegian retro-gaming site Spillhistorie. Read more.

Posted Friday 25-Oct-2024 07:32, 0 comments.

Making 8-bit Music From Scratch at the Commodore 64 BASIC Prompt

In this video, I make 8-bit SID music on a Commodore 64 without any software apart from the built-in BASIC interpreter. This involves poking numbers into memory and hardware registers and writing machine code in decimal. Read more.

Posted Friday 27-Sep-2024 08:28, 7 comments.

The Tenor Commodordion

The Tenor Commodordion is an ergonomically improved version of the Commodordion. Read more.

Posted Friday 16-Aug-2024 13:16, 1 comment.

An AVR Programmer for the C64

So there I was, tinkering away on a microcontroller project, when all of a sudden my AVR programmer stopped working. Read more.

• lft-avrprg64-1.0.prg (C64 executable, 381 bytes)
• lft-avrprg64-1.0.s (Source code, 2.5 kB)

Posted Friday 19-Jul-2024 06:35, 4 comments.